About Halmal

Hey everyone! We are Hal and Mal from Halmal Productions! A team of two sibling VTubers who make art and stream together! You may know us from Twitch or YouTube, but regardless of how you found our content, we're happy to share with you!

We started streaming as Halmal Productions in June 2021, but our content creating days predate when we started streaming together. Before streaming with Mal, Hal was actually streaming with their dad on his Twitch channel, Loomis360. Our models were still a work in progress at the time, but our plan was for Hal to eventually leave our dad's channel to focus on Halmal Productions once our models were finished. However, streaming with our dad helped us to learn Twitch as a platform and grow our audience before we even started.

But what about the name? Where did the name Halmal Productions come from? Our dad is once again at the center of it. When we were both itty bitty and I mean ITTY BITTY our dad worked as a freelance videographer and audio technician for news stations around the area. In his free time he would use his skills to film home video of us. He created the name Halmal Productions for us off of our initials. When he posted these videos to YouTube, each one would be signed under the name Halmal Productions. Eventually when we were thinking of starting to stream, our dad offered us the name for Twitch, and it was far better than any name we could have come up with ourselves.

As for why we wanted to become VTubers, we grew up watching YouTube, and we always looked up to whatever content creators we were watching at the time. We always dreamed of starting our own channel together since we were little. Originally, we wanted to be Minecraft Youtubers, as many children in our generation did, but our dreams evolved along with the platform of YouTube itself. When we found out about animation YouTubers, for example, we wanted to be just like them as well. Naturally, when we found out about VTubers, we had the same thought. Only this time, we had the time, boredom and skills to actually make it happen.

While procrastinating their online classes, Mal was watching clips of Inugami Korone on YouTube and watching her model intently, studying the way it moved and thinking about how it's possible. Eventually, they were procrastinating so hard that they pulled out their tablet and started sketching a design for what their own model might look like and how it would be separated. They didn't actually know how to separate a VTuber model. They didn't look up any tutorials (because the idea was to procrastinate learning), so they were just guessing based on how they saw the models moving. Eventually, they were fully drawing an entire model on Procreate, and when they were finished, they showed Hal.

And Hal, after gawking in amazement, asked Mal to create a model for him as well. Then they did. And Hal loved it. The question after that was how to rig it. We searched the internet for people we could possibly hire to rig them for us, but we were doubtful that those riggers would be able to work with our cartoon art style. We also couldn't be sure that Mal actually drew the models correctly. Mal was content in letting it go and giving up, but Hal had a dream to fulfill and insisted on learning how to rig himself!

There were not a lot of YouTube tutorials on how to rig at the time. Much less that were in English. Just DreamTrove and KiraOmori, so a lot of it was experimentation, especially with our cartoon models, but in time, Hal got it all working.

There were plenty of things we did wrong, which was why we eventually re-did our models again, and again and again, but we're so happy we actually took that first step to begin making content in the first place. It's opened the door to so many amazing things in our lives, and we've had so much fun along the way and accomplished so much!

If you have dream of making content whether as a VTuber or any other kind of YouTuber, you just have to take the first step and see where it leads.